Advanced Centre for Women's Studies

The Centre for Women’s Studies at TISS was recognized as an Advanced Centre by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in 2011 as part of its XI Plan (2007-2012). The Centre has been contributing significantly through the activities mandated by the UGC such as research, teaching, training, documentation, networking, dissemination and extension activities over the past three decades.

The Centre has the vision to emerge as a critical centre of feminist knowledge and activism, involved in gender related knowledge production and dissemination within the higher education system in India with its spheres of influence extending to social movements, state policy, and ...

Centre for Electoral Management Studies

Centre for Electoral Management Studies, School of Development Studies, TISS

As part of a collaboration between Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Election Commission of India (ECI) and India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM), School of Development Studies, TISS has established the Centre of Electoral Management Studies (C-EMS) to promote electoral governance and integrity of elections through building capacity of electoral officials, electoral management bodies, and young policy leaders in India and abroad. It is widely appreciated that properly-administered, efficient, and cost-effective inclusive electoral operations are critically important to the credibility, legitimacy and sustainability of democracies around ...

Centre for Population, Health and Development

Centre for Population, Health and Development has been consistently engaged in the articulation of the relationship between population, health and development through research and teaching at MA , MPhil and PhD levels.The Centre faculty are actively engaged in analysing secondary data from various sources and conducting empirical studies in the areas of population, health and development. The major thematic areas the centre currently focussing on Demographic Changes, Population Dynamics and Epidemiological and Nutritional Transitions, Sexual and Reproductive Health , Issues of Ageing and Tribal Health and Development.

This Centre has been involved in major research projects that include “Socio economic Status ...

Centre for Public Policy, Habitat and Human Development

The Centre for Public Policy, Habitat and Human Development has been striving continiously to engage with critical perspectives on the role of State and Democracy, poverty, inequality and human development issues both nationally and globally. The pursuit involved collaborative research, membership in Taskforces and active participation numerous national and international conferences.

Professor Ashwani Kumar, in a career spanning over two and half decades teaching political science, governance, development and public policy. The privilege of engaging with students, academicians, diplomats, parliamentarians, development professionals, multilateral agencies and governments, across countries (UK, Germany, Korea, China, South Africa, USA) and at various levels (as ...

Centre for Social Theory

“Failure to examine the conceptual structures and frames of reference which are unconsciously implicated in even the seemingly most innocent factual inquires is the single greatest defect that can be found in any field of inquiry.”

- John Dewey

Introduction:

The explosion of ‘theory’ in the social sciences and the sense of urgency it has known to carry in a little over the last three decades has arisen out of a hugely creative effort to challenge dominant paradigms and to make sense of the radical openings offered in the understanding of the ‘human condition’. This has been thrown open ...

Centre for Study of Developing Economies

The Centre for Study of Developing Economies (CDE) is envisaged as a teaching, research and dissemination hub on the specific problems of developing economies. By developing economies, we refer to those countries that continue to be backward with respect to the material well-being of people. Material well-being includes per capita incomes, but it is a wider and richer conception of development; the term is employed here to mean the fundamental, primary conditions of human existence.

The CDE focuses on engaging with the problems of developing economies from a historical and political economy perspective; studies of changes in the spheres of ...

Centre for Study of Developing Societies

The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, established in May 2012, aims to unravel the dynamics and the multiple relationships implicit in the two defining terms in the nomenclature of this centre: society and development. The uniqueness of this centre lies in its ability to apply and train students in understanding the dynamics of change in Indian society through the lens of a 'sociological imagination'. Through teaching, research and course development, students and faculty members at this centre continually seek to enliven the connections between private worlds and public issues, within the larger frame of development.

Societies cannot be ...